Description:
An immersive reading of Sprin’ Fevah by Raymond Dandridge with reflection on spring fever, disability and polio.
Work
Sprin’ Fevah
Dar’s a lazy, sortah hazy
Feelin’ grips me, thoo an’ thoo;
An’ I feels lak doin’ less dan enythin’;
Dough de saw is sharp an’ greasy,
Dough de task et han’ is easy,
An’ de day am fair an’ breezy,
Dar’s a thief dat steals embition in de win’.
Kaint defy it, kaint deny it,
Kaze it jes wont be denied;
It’s a mos’ pursistin’ stubbern sortah thin’;
Anti Tox’ doan neutralize it;
Doctahs fail to analyze it;
So I yiel’s (dough I despise it)
To dat res’less, wretchit fevah
evah Sprin’.
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